Kawwa, Taysir; (1963) Ethnic prejudice and choice of friends amongst English and non-English adolescents. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), Institute of Education, University of London.

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This study is concerned with the attitudes prevailing among some British children towards coloured people and Cypriots. In a school in London, a sociometric test was given to 777 children consisting of a majority of British children and a minority of coloured and Cypriot children. The aim of the test was to find out whether and to what extent children of the different ethnic groups restricted their choice(s) of friends to members of their own groups. The result(s) of this test showed that the members of the three ethnic groups preferred members of their own groups to members of other groups. Boys and girls wore equally Ingroup choosers. To find out whether that group preference reflected a prejudice or not, the British children only were given two attitude tests: the first was an open-ended questionnaire consisting of eight questions in which the children were asked about the way they felt towards coloured people and Cypriots. The second was an attitude scale constructed on the Likert model with three categories of choice in which the children wore asked to agree, disagree, or remain undecided about 41 items concerning coloured people. After finding that the London children tested were quite prejudiced against coloured and Cypriot people, we gave the same questions to children living in Lowestoft, on area where coloured people wore rarely seen. The findings substantiated the hypothesis that where there are no or very few coloured people, the attitudes of the people are far more tolerant than the attitudes of people living with coloured people and Cypriots. In London and Lowestoft, boys in general were found to be less prejudiced than girls though the difference was not absolute and constant when studied alongside the age levels of these children which varied from 11-17. In all cases central tendencies, mean scores, were compared.

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